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April 23, 2007
you use works of art to see your soul
God speaks to us through works of art. What is it that we have a right to expect great art to say to us, to do for us? To delight us, of course, but also to deepen our awareness of the things that matter, to enable us to accept darkness and pain, to tell us what we might not have wanted to know but needed to know, to make us into something more than we were before, more human, and more compassionate. And, most of all I think, to enable us to see into ourselves. Bernard Shaw, in his most Wagnerian play, Back to Methuselah, said, “you use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”
M. Owen Lee
Posted by amin at April 23, 2007 1:59 AM